A young Lupe yelled in his gruff, loud voice, "Feepits are kind of cute!"

"THE BRIG!" a Skeith shouted.

An Acara and a Kacheek grabbed the green Lupe (whose name was Swipey) and threw him into a pit outside the tree house.

Swipey looked around the dusty hole deep in the ground. The top was very high up; he could never climb it.

"Why are you here?" a figure in the shadows asked.

"I... don't know," Swipey said quietly.

The figure came into the light. It was a rainbow Gnorbu. "I'm here because I said meepits were too small."

"I'm here because," a dirty-looking red Meerca said, "I said that meepits were cruel. There aren't even bathtubs down here."

"Ol' Danny's been down here three years," a Kougra said. "I was thrown in here yesterday."

"I'm Rain," the rainbow Gnorbu said.

"I'm Danny," the Meerca said.

The royal Kougra stood on his back legs and tilted his head back proudly. "I'm Sir Treebok Yingle."

"Why do those guys like meepits so much?" Swipey asked. "When I joined the club I thought we would quietly discuss tips on caring for pet meepits."

Rain laughed aloud. "Yeah right!"

"We should get them back!" Danny yelled.

"Revenge!" Sir Treebok Yingle shouted.

"How?" Rain asked.

It suddenly was quiet.

"Can any of you fly?" Swipey asked.

All the arms and paws pointed to a cluster of darkness and shadows.

"Freddy can," Rain said.

A Tyrannian Pteri came into the open. "I can't. I'm too scared."

"Then let's climb out!" Danny yelled.

"Yeah!" Rain yelled.

"Yay!" Swipey shouted.

"Can I use the bathroom first?" Sir Treebok Yingle asked shyly.

"B- bathroom?" Swipey asked.

Freddy nodded to a corner of the hole.

Swipey nodded knowingly and then almost vomited.

***

"Higher!" Rain yelled.

Swipey and Danny were throwing Rain up into the air. The last try he had almost reached the edge of the pit.

"Higher!"

"Any higher and you'd be in Faerieland," Danny remarked, laughing.

"Anyone else think Fyora's pretty?" Sir Treebok asked.

Freddy laughed half-heartedly. He was hiding in the shadows, feeling bad because he couldn't fly.

Two years earlier, Freddy's home had caught fire. He tried to fly into the house to save his roommate. But a strong wind had captured Freddy's wings. He didn't reach the house in time. Freddy hadn't flown since. He was the most discouraged Pteri in Neopia!

"Come help!" Rain yelled to Freddy.

"No."

Swipey noticed Freddy. He excused himself and went to sit by Freddy.

"Go away," Freddy hissed.

"You want to help, don't you?"

"Yes!" Freddy said. "Yes! I can't, though!"

"Why not?"

Freddy needed to vent, so he told Swipey the story.

"And that's why I don't fly," Freddy finished.

"Would your friend want you to be like this?" Swipey asked.

"No." Freddy knew where the conversation was going. "I'm just scared."

"If one of them," Swipey motioned to Danny, Rain and Treebok, "were in danger, would you help?"

"No flying."

"Yes," Swipey said firmly.

"I couldn't help," Freddy sighed.

"Who says?" Swipey demanded.

"Me."

Swipey looked up at the light coming from the hole's opening, an expression of kindness glued to his face. He looked at Freddy with the same expression.

Blue's Way: Part ThreeJust a few moments later, Rei and Fura were walking through the forest with Blue. They had announced to the Kougra that they would help him, and he had immediately told them what his secret was...